Balancing attachment.



No. 784,924., PATENTED MAR. 14, 1905.

uncoous. BALANCING ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 13, 1905.

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Patented March 14, 1905.

PATENT OEEIcE.

CHARLES E. OOONS, OF FORT WVORTH, TEXAS.

BALANCllNG ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 784,924, dated March14, 1905.

Application filed January 13, 1905. Serial No. 240,877.

To all whom, it TIMI/y concern:

Beitknown that I, CHARLES E. OooNs, acitizen of the United States,residing at Fort Worth, Texas, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Balancing Attachments for Pumps, Windmills, and theLike, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to balancing devices for pumps and windmills andfor similar uses; and the object is to provide balancing attachments forengaging the sucker-rod or pumprod to make the pumping or work moreeasily accomplished and to protect the pumping or operating mechanismfrom the jerking or dropping motion so-common and destructive to pumpingmechanism, The use of such balancing attachments will prolong the lifeof pumping mechanism.

Other objects and advantages will be fully explained in the followingdescription, and the invention will be more particularly pointed out inthe claims.

Reference is had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of thisapplication and specification.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the balancing attachments mounted on'apump pipe or tube, the tube and the sucker-rod being broken. Fig. 2 is aplan View of the sucker-rod clamps and the connecting-links on a largerscale than shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 shows a portion of one of the fulcrumclamps or supports, illustrating an elongated opening for anattaching-bolt. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the tube or pipe and thefulcrums with their supports engaging the tube.

Similar characters of reference are used to indicate the same partsthroughout the several views.

The drawings show a sucker-rod F broken away at each end and engaged byclamps G, the clamps G being secured thereon by suitable bolts g. Pairsof link-connection bars A and B are pivotally connected to the clamps Gby pivot-bolts a and Z). Levers H are pivotally connected to thelink-bars A and B by pivot-bolts (Z. Fulcru ms are provided for thelevers H. The arms C and D are mounted on the Well pipe or tube'E bymeans of the fulcrum-arm clamps L. The lower ends of the arms O and l)are bent and formed into clamps L, adapted to engage the pipe E, and aresecured thereon by the bolts R. The fulcrum posts or arms O and D arebifurcated at P, their upper ends, to receive the levers H. Suitablefulcrum-bolts M are provided to hold the levers H in place in the arms Oand D. Movable weights J are mounted on the levers H and may be securedat various adjustments thereon bysuitable set-screws K. The weights Jmay be of any suitable form. I have shown them round with aperturestherethrough to receive the levers H. The bolt-holes S in thefulcrum-clamps are elongated for the purpose of changing the positionsof the fulcrums relative to each other to effect a perfect balancing ofthe power and for increasing or diminishing the power. The elongatedbolt-holes are necessary to permit moving the upper ends of thefulcrum-arms closer to or farther from the sucker-rod when the bolts Mare to engage the different holes in the levers. The bent portions ofthe clamps L are sufliciently elliptical to permit changing of thepositions of the clamps. 'ith the various provisions for adjustmentshown my improved balancing attachment is adapted for use on anyordinary windmill fixture or pump.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. A balancing device for windmills and the like comprising sucker-rodclamps, fulcrums terminating in clamps for engaging the well tubing orpipe, levers mounted in said fulcrums, link-bars pivotally connected tosaid sucker-rod clamps and pivotally connected to said levers, andmovable weights mounted on said levers, said fulcrum-clamps being bentto engage the tubing, and bolts being provided for securing saidfulcrum-clamps together, said clamps having elongated boltholes and saidlevers and fulcrums having each a plurality of bolt-holes to permitadjustment of said fulcrums to effect a balancing of said levers toincrease or diminish the power of said balancing devices.

2. In a balancing device for windmills and the like, the combination ofa sucker-rod conn eetion, clamps engaging said sucker-rod connection,linlvbars pivotally engaging said clamps, 't'ulcrums terminating in.clamps ad apted to engage the Well tubing 01' pipe, levers adjustablypivoted in said 'fulcrums and pivotally connected to said link-bars, theclamps formed by the terminals of sai(.lfulcrum-arms having elongatedbolt-holes to permit the changing of the positions of said fulcrums,

IO bolts for retaining said clamps in different positions, and movableWeights mounted on the long arms of said levers.

In testimony whereof I set my hand, in the presence of two Witnesses,this 7th day of J anuary, 1905.

CHARLES E. GOON S.

Witnesses:

A. L. JACKSON, J. W. STITT.

